America has no trouble announcing its intentions and who's side it is on. Patriot Missiles will fly from inside Turkey and knock down Syrian jets
flying inside Syria's borders.

Arizona Sen. John McCain has endorsed setting up Patriot missile batteries to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria, which the Republican believes will
be critical to quell the violence that has raged in the war-torn country for more than 20 months.

Syrian jets are flying up there near Turkeys borders in order to interdict the flow of arms and insurgents from Turkey into Syria. Looks like the US
is going to get a no fly zone over Syria after all. Shooting guided missiles across the border into Syrians airspace isn't a violation of
international sovereignty is it? Like The CIA drone programs, they don't actually cross the borders, they just fly "overhead".

Imagine if the Mexican Government were to start downing US planes patrolling the border "over" US territory.

A recent event held by the Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Initiative, featured a “conversation” with Senator John McCain and self-proclaimed
“philosopher” Bernard-Henri Lévy. Both men played a pivotal role in arranging and promoting the arming, funding, and diplomatic recognition of
terrorists in Libya who have now overrun much of the country, committed wide scale atrocities, and have left a US Ambassador dead and a US consulate
burnt to the ground. Despite this, they now openly seek to repeat their “success” in Syria.

A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites.
In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib. More
than 70 years has passed and the grandson of this Nur-Eddin – Mouaz al-Khatib, a former preacher at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus and now a
deserter and traitor – has been elected head of the “Qatar Coalition” which was created on 11 November at a meeting in Doha.

photo caption: French General Georges Catroux is walking next to Nur-Eddin al-Khatib, the grandfather of Mouaz al-Khatib, the incumbent president
of the National Coalition for Opposition Forces and the Syrian Revolution. Photo taken in 1941.

France has shown its gratitude to the third-generation collaborator al-Khatib, whose grandfather collaborated with the colonisers, for his
faithful service. Namely the former colonial power has been the first to recognise the “Qatar Coalition” as a legitimate representative of the
Syrian people. It is no surprise that the flag of the “opposition” – green, white and black with three stars – is the same as the flag from
the time when Syria was under French mandate.

Here is the most recent speech, with english translation, given by Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari.

"Speech of Syrian representative to the UN, 142 foreign fighters were killed in Syria, 30/11/2012"

And an article from Syria 360°, which links to a SANA article:

"AL JAAFARI: THE SYRIAN PEOPLE WANT A SYRIAN-LED DEMOCRACY, NOT ONE IMPOSED THROUGH VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED" Posted on November 28, 2012 syria360.wordpress.com...

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari, stressed that the Syrian people want to build a Syrian-made democracy based on a
Syrian experience that meets the Syrians’ needs and is led by them, but not a bloody, sectarian and salafi democracy that is imposed from abroad
through armed violence.
Al-Jaafari was speaking during a session of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee discussing a draft resolution on Syria in the framework of
item 69 of the agenda titled ‘The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights’.
The Syrian Ambassador stressed that the draft resolution doesn’t lie in the framework of goodwill and has nothing to do with transparency of the
care for human rights in Syria as it holds the Syrian government responsible for all what happened in Syria without addressing any condemnation to the
armed terrorist groups and the countries manipulating them.

A short article from the site "Inner City Press" I just found highlighting the irony (hypocrisy,absurdity) of France calling for a resolution
against another country for arming 'rebels', while at the same time just having given 1.something million dollars to other 'rebels' (though that
might not have happened yet when this article was written...) :

I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'd heard that natural gas plays a huge, yet all but unknown, part in the conflict. I just came across this
article at counterpsyops which talks about this and Turkey's role, which has even greater significance as they are a NATO member:

What we know about this issue is that the Mediterranean basin is the wealthiest in gas and that Syria would be the wealthiest state, according to
the Washington Institute which also speculates that struggle between Turkey and Cyprus would heat due to Ankara’s inability to bear its losses of
the Nabucco gas despite the contract Moscow signed with Ankara on December 2011 to transport part of the South Stream gas via Turkey.

Embracing the secret of the Syrian gas will let all know how big the game over gas is. Who controls Syria could control the Middle East, grip on the
Gateway to Asia, possess the Key to Russia’s House, as Catherine 2nd put it, and could set foot on the Silk Road, according to China. Most
importantly, they who could penetrate Syria for gas have the ability to dominate the world especially that the coming century is the Century of Gas.
And with the contract Damascus signed to transport Iranian gas to the Mediterranean through Iraq, the geopolitical space would open and the gas space
would close on the scene of Nabucco that used to be Europe and Turkey’s lifeline. Syria, undoubtedly, would be the key to the coming epoch.

NATO has inaugurated a new base in the western province of İzmir as part of a new effort to update the alliance’s command structure. The new
Allied Land Command will serve as a base for carrying out land operations when ordered by the alliance following the inspection, evaluation,
preparation and standardization of NATO land forces.

I'll also link to this article, which is mostly the same, but has some good comments:

sbs
Dec 1, 2012 3:37 PM
I really don't understand how Turkey could be any leader of the Muslim world when it is basically an occupied country. Once this one is established
there will be 25 littering Turkey from end to end. Turkey's naval fleet has only 8 ships & none are Turkish made. All are 15 years old or more used
presents courtesy of the US. I learned this from a Turkish tour at a military museum I visited over there. The Global Research website published an
article on February 14, 2011 naming all 24 of the NATO bases in Turkey. When Turkey was leaning more towards the East, had their "zero problems"
with neighbors, & a visa free zone with Iraq, Syria, & Iran, the US probably came in & got Turkey in line. Now Turkey has "0 friends." Turkey's
actions are despicable, but they are hardly evil geniuses. They're slaves to the West. Whoever gave them the idea that they will be a regional or
world leader spoke a fairytale.

I did not know there was 24, now 25, NATO bases in Turkey! I'll see if I can track down that GR article.

The Syrian National Coalition for
Opposition and Revolutionary Forces,
created earlier this month in Qatar to
bring together disparate opposition
groups under one umbrella, has
agreed upon the parameters of a
selective transitional government.
The group, meeting for the first time
in Cairo since their inception, said in a
news conference on Saturday that the
transitional government would be
tasked with dealing with the
international community on behalf of
the Syrian people.

Again, how insane this is. Just in the opening paragraphs - the proposed transitional govt, created in Qatar, based in Cairo, who will soon meet with
the rebels side only to try to unify their support, are going to be seen by the International community to be representing all of Syria...

Of course this seems reasonable to the brainwashed audience who thinks all of Syria are behind the 'freedom fighting revolutionaries' known as the
FSA.

Out of the 19 countries, the west have very good relations with over half of them. That isn't mentioning the possibility of Westerners who are on the
ground in Syria. It has been alleged that British and French troops were on the ground at the beginning of the Revolution and with that, some were
caught. It has also surfaced that a couple of Journalists were taken hostage in Syria and noticed the Fluent English language used by some of the
Rebels.

I'll also add a couple of things you will certainly not see in the Western media. Protests directed at France and the United States have been staged
in Syria.

A protest on Thursday was staged outside the French Embassy in Damascus including hundreds of people who were carrying signboards calling on
France not to interfere in Syria’s internal affairs and condemning the French role in igniting the international public opinion against
Syria.

The report goes on to say that the Syrian people are pretty much calling for France to stop sponsoring terrorism within their country.

Meanwhile, another protest was staged outside the US Embassy in Damascus condemning the US policies.

A protester told SANA reporter that they are holding the protest to tell the US not to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria.

Again, more evidence that the Syrian people simply want the international community to butt out. All this crap we from our media is nothing but
propaganda to promote more bloodshed with the Syrian peoples blood. Leave them to sort it out themselves and with that, they will sort our their
government also. By the sounds of it, they don't want change.. It is a western Idea and nothing more.

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